Congratulations to Becca Beiter Becca Beiter and Pablo Gimenez Gomez Pablo Gimenez from UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology for being awarded the Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences postdoc mentoring award! So well deserved! We are so lucky to have you.

Congratulations to Melanie Barbini and Echo Xiao @Melaniebb12 Echooo_X from UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences for passing their qualifying exams. We are proud to call you Schafer lab members!

Congratulations Pablo Gimenez his Young Investigator Educational Enhancement award from AmSocietyNeurochem. UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School is well represented!

Congratulations to Patrick Sheehan Pat Sheehan in my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School for his Marian Kies award from AmSocietyNeurochem for his outstanding graduate work in Erik Musiek lab. Well deserved and many great things for Pat ahead! Also congrats to other awardees.

Happy to share this review article on microglial phagocytosis mechanisms in development informing disease. Great collaborative effort between Becca Beiter and Pat Sheehan in the lab.

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Happy to share our new preprint from Jennifer Lawrence, with help from (twitterless) Rich Daneman: Microglia drive diurnal variation in susceptibility to inflammatory blood-brain barrier breakdown biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Here is the piece:

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Very nice piece in Current Biology on my colleague in UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School Ev Yemini. We are so lucky to have him in our department. A star for sure!

Trying this again:
I’m a terrible PI for not posting this sooner. A recent review published from my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School from the fabulous Violeta Durán on activity-dependent regulation of microglia within neural circuits:

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Only a few days left for submitting your #abstract at the #EMBO #microglia meeting! Awesome lineup of speakers, exciting #science , great location #Italy 😎 Short talks selected among the abstracts!
Hurry up, microglia lovers!!! #EMBO microglia24 Amanda Sierra @realFlorentGinhoux EMBO

Congratulations Becca Beiter. Proud to have you in the lab!

UMass Chan is a wonderful place to do science. Smart and caring colleagues all working towards common goals. I am happy to give you more information if you are interested.

Interested in Alzheimers Disease - check out this tenure track position posting @UmassChanNeuro. This is a great opportunity for an Assoc/Full Professor to join us here and advance AD research. #FacultyPosition #UMassChan

Congratulations!!! It was great to compare notes and get two great papers out together that will improve the field.

Divya Jain, PhD and I had a fantastic time hosting Dr. Travis Faust from the incredible SchaferLabUMassChan at UMass Chan Medical School! 👏 This #postdoc is definitely on the rise! 🧠👨‍🔬🌟
Big thanks to the amazing #Faculty members Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the dedicated #neuroscience admins Friedman Brain Institute…

Free 👏 lunch 👏 with the prestigious postdoc Travis Faust, from SchaferLabUMassChan ‼️ Friedman Brain Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Grad School at Sinai Sinai Postdoctoral Organizing Committee-UAW 😁

Congratulations to Rebecca Beiter Becca Beiter in my lab UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology UMass Chan Medical School. She just received the NOA from NINDSfunding for her postdoctoral F32! Many exciting things to come from this superstar.

Come to the UMass Chan Medical School UMass Chan Medical SchoolGSBS booth #56 Society for Neuroscience (SfN)

Glia Peeps- see you at the Glia SFN Social Mon pm. Pass the word !

Reposting our tenure track position UMass Chan Department of Neurobiology. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/26264
Application screening will begin Nov 15th.